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Learning from the experience of parents in poverty: The power of recognition.
- Source :
- Child & Family Social Work; Feb2023, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p258-267, 10p, 1 Diagram
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- This study aims to contribute to the literature exploring the parents' perspective on what parenting in poverty means in their everyday life and how they are able to cope with the challenges that arise from a condition of economic deprivation. Forty parents living in different Italian regions had been interviewed. Data gathering and data analysis were conducted as a simultaneous and iterative process, oriented by the constructivist grounded theory. Our findings provide a clear picture of the parents' constant struggle to protect their children from an environment in which structural conditions and dominant narratives lead to normalize and personalize disadvantages. Parents described enabling and disabling processes that interplay at a material, relational and symbolic level, influencing their movement along a continuum that depicts different experiences in different moments of their lives, as the output of processes where vulnerabilities and strengths are combined. The parents' knowledge helps to explain the wider social processes and the day‐to‐day social interactions that influence the flow along this continuum. The final purpose is to allow their voices to be heard and to learn from their perspective, as it is essential in designing policies and services that are supposed to help them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- PARENT attitudes
RECOGNITION (Psychology)
CULTURE
MOTHERS
PSYCHOLOGY of parents
GROUNDED theory
MATHEMATICAL models
INTERVIEWING
UNCERTAINTY
FATHERS
SOCIAL justice
EXPERIENCE
PARENTING
HEALTH literacy
RESEARCH funding
SOUND recordings
THEORY
POVERTY
PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation
STATISTICAL sampling
PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13567500
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Child & Family Social Work
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 161312046
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12958